NZ publishers struggling after lockdown ‘obliterated’ April sales
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) reports that the country’s book publishers ‘are struggling to regroup after seeing sales obliterated in April’. Under New Zealand’s month-long...
Kavanagh, Callil among Copyright Agency-funded ‘emerging culture critics’
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil are among five ‘emerging culture critics’ appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers with its share of $150,000 in funding from the Copyright Agency...
SPN launches podcast, plans for real-world November conference
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that it has begun planning this year’s Independent Publishing Conference, which is scheduled to run from 26–28 November in Melbourne. ‘We are working...
Bishop, Bui, Rowe named SMH 2020 Best Young Aus Novelists
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2020 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for short story collections. The writers are: Alice Bishop for A...
O’Brien wins €10,000 Moth Poetry Prize
Friday, 1 May 2020
Queensland poet Damen O’Brien has won the €10,000 (A$19,400) Moth Poetry Prize for ‘The Nave’. The annual prize for a single unpublished poem is sponsored by the publishers of literary...
Hachette Aus experiences one of its ‘best ever’ first quarters, as Lagardère reports sales decline
Friday, 1 May 2020
Hachette Australia has enjoyed one of its ‘best ever’ first quarters this year, despite Hachette Book Group parent company Lagardère reporting that year-on-year sales dipped 0.8% over the same period....
UQP sells ‘Too Much Lip’ to HarperVia
Friday, 1 May 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip to HarperCollins international imprint HarperVia. HarperOne Group president and publisher Judith...
ANZ picture books longlisted for World Illustration Awards
Friday, 1 May 2020
A number of Australian and New Zealand picture book creators have been longlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020. Spanning 10 categories, the 500-strong longlist includes five ANZ illustrators nominated...
Black Inc. acquires local rights to ‘On Pandemics’ by Canadian epidemiologist
Friday, 1 May 2020
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus, by Canadian epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews. After acquiring the rights on 24 April, Black Inc. will publish...
SWF launches podcast series to give 2020 program ‘a new story’
Friday, 1 May 2020
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will present more than 50 're-imagined sessions' from its 2020 program as a series of podcasts, after the festival was forced to cancel due to...
Australia Reads launches ‘School Kids’ initiative
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Australia Reads has launched Australia Reads: School Kids, a list of recommended books for which publishers will create teaching notes and offer increased bookseller discounts. With input from The Little...
Picador acquires ‘The Dressmaker’ sequel
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Picador has acquired ANZ rights to The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Dressmaker's Secret is a direct sequel following the events of Ham's debut novel...
Maramenides joins Five Mile as CEO
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Alexandra Maramenides will join Five Mile Publishing as CEO, following the departure of Tash Besliev from the role of commercial director earlier this year. Marmenides recently relocated to Australia after...
Creative Victoria announces latest VicArts recipients
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts grants. The program will provide over $1.17 million in funding for...
Publish or postpone? Which titles are being delayed due to Covid-19
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
With Covid-19 disrupting book launches, author events, festivals and the retail sector as a whole, Australian publishers are weighing up which titles should be postponed, which go ahead regardless, and...
HGE sells ‘Real Pigeons’ to UK, announces YouTube series
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold its ‘Real Pigeons’ series by Andrew McDonald (illus by Ben Wood) to an as-yet-unnamed UK publisher, which will ‘crash the series into early 2021’,...
More than online sales: What being a virtual bookstore looks like in shut-down
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
While the first four recipients of Copyright Agency emergency funding for innovative online projects went to a podcast, two online author interview platforms and a speakers agency, booksellers have been...
ABIA 2020 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U) Cilka’s Journey (Heather...
Online initiatives by Llewellyn, Spicer receive Copyright Agency emergency funding
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Two new initiatives to promote books and writers online have received funding from Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 emergency funding. Former artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival Caro Llewellyn will host...
Newman to join Dymocks as new MD
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Dymocks has announced the appointment of Mark Newman as its new managing director, effective from Monday 4 May. Newman replaces outgoing managing director Steve Cox, who announced in February that...
States announce new Covid-19 arts funding
Monday, 27 April 2020
Arts funding bodies in Victoria and New South Wales have announced new funding initiatives for the creative sector in response to Covid-19. Victoria: $16.8 million ‘survival package’, including $2.2 million...
Ernest Scott Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 April 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Bedlam at Botany Bay (James Dunk, NewSouth) The Seventies: The personal, the political...
‘The Yield’ takes hat-trick at 2020 NSW Prem’s Awards
Monday, 27 April 2020
The Yield by Tara June Winch (Hamish Hamilton) has swept the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, winning Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...
Abadee launches new books podcast with Copyright Agency relief funding
Friday, 24 April 2020
Books writer and festival moderator Nicole Abadee has received Copyright Agency Covid-19 relief funding to produce a new books podcast. Abadee told Books+Publishing the weekly Books, Books, Books podcast would...
Lotterywest establishes $159m Covid-19 relief fund
Friday, 24 April 2020
The WA State Government has allocated Lotterywest's direct grants budget to a new Covid-19 relief fund, worth up to $159 million. The funding will be used to support organisations helping...
APA says Liberal members likely distributed ‘well over 1000 copies’ of leaked Turnbull memoir, as initial 45,000 print run ‘almost exhausted’
Friday, 24 April 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make an ‘emphatic statement’ that he and the government will ‘uphold the private property rights of Australian...
Nielsen offers one-off sales reports for ASA members seeking JobKeeper as book market experiences ‘sharp decline’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Nielsen Book will provide free one-off sales reports for Australian Society of Authors (ASA) members seeking evidence of reduced revenue in order to apply for JobKeeper payments. The arrangement is...
NZ booksellers to begin trading again as restrictions eased, but supply ‘tricky’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
New Zealand’s booksellers are preparing to recommence trade from early next week, with the country’s Covid-19 restrictions due to be eased from late Monday, 27 April. New Zealand has been...
Hardie Grant reaches settlement with adviser who distributed leaked Turnbull memoir
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Hardie Grant has reached a settlement with Scott Morrison senior adviser Nico Louw, who allegedly distributed leaked electronic copies of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, and the publisher will...
‘When the Ground is Hard’ wins LA Times Book Prize for YA
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
When the Ground is Hard by Sydney-based writer Malla Nunn (A&U) has won the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult literature. Nunn was shortlisted for the award...
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